Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ambar From: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 04:51:35 GMT References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> <5017@ficc.uu.net> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Madhouse International Technologies Lines: 28 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 14 Jul 89 21:22:44 GMT From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Date: 14 Jul 89 21:22:44 GMT In article , karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes about two rabid rerouters routing through each other. I wish I still had the message, but it was some time ago... you'll have to take my word for it. I seem to recall that one of the participants was at athena.mit.edu, and I don't recall where the other was, but it was another university. If one of the participants was at athena.mit.edu, then you had a different problem. athena.mit.edu does not reroute, whether actively or passively; it does not use pathalias, smail, or homegrown hacks of its own. In fact, last time I talked to Ron Hoffman, who is postmaster@athena.mit.edu, it wasn't even running an MX-speaking sendmail. bloom-beacon.mit.edu, which is the news server for MIT Project Athena, DOES passively reroute (given an address of the form user@host.uucp, it will look up host.uucp in the maps and route it appropriately), but it is not, and never has been, an active rerouter. AMBAR ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu {mit-eddie,uunet}!bloom-beacon!ambar